Have You Been Hacked? Tell Us About It

What is it like to be hacked? Over the weekend, technology writer Mat Honan found out when attackers took over his computer, phone and online accounts – deleting photos of his young daughter and posting racist statements to his Twitter feed.

Honan is senior writer for Wired, which gave him an obvious outlet in which to tell his story — and to be heard. (Amazon and Apple reportedly have alreadyfixed two of the key security flaws involved, at least to some extent.) Yet victims of hacking often suffer in relative obscurity. To boot, Web service providers often are tight-lipped about such incidents and related statistics.

If you’ve been the victim of a hacking attack, Digits would like to hear about it. The short survey below is highly unscientific. But it’s a start at better understanding who gets hacked, on what services, and how. If we receive enough responses, we’ll publish the results in a later post.

We won’t publish any contact information, but if you’d like to include it, we may reach out to you for further details. We also won’t publish your name (if you provide it) without first getting your permission.

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Note: This survey uses a Google-hosted form. The results will be sent to a Google spreadsheet, to which only two reporters’ accounts will have access. Although no method of communication is 100% secure, both of those reporters use Google’s “2-step verification“ to help protect their accounts and, hence, the survey submissions.